Reading: Jimin Han: The Apology
About The Apology:
In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come. Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision would return to haunt her—threatening to tear apart her bond with her beloved son, her relationship with her infuriatingly insolent sisters, and the future of the family she has worked so hard to protect? Part ghost story and part family epic, The Apology is an incisive tale of sisterhood and diaspora, reaching back to the days of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, and told through the singular voice of a defiant, funny, and unforgettable centenarian.
Jimin Han is the author of The Apology, a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick; named a best audiobook of the year by Booklist, a best book of the summer by the LA Times, Vanity Fair, Shondaland, Apple Books and more. She is also the author of A Small Revolution. Additional writing of hers can be found at American Public Media's Weekend America, Poets & Writers, and other media outlets. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, Pace University, and community writing centers. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she grew up in Providence, Rhode Island; Dayton, Ohio; and Jamestown, New York. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
About The Home for Wayward Girls:
Growing up in the 1990s, a young girl escapes her abusive parents––and the "ranch" they ran for "bad" girls––and becomes an advocate for teen runaways in this harrowing and heartfelt novel for fans of Joanna Goodman and Lisa Wingate.
Marcia Bradley, seeking a 'second life,' moved from Los Angeles to study at Sarah Lawrence College earning her MFA in 2017 after her BA from Antioch University. Recently the keynote speaker at Story Circle Network's Annual Conference, Marcia has received a Bronx Council on the Arts/New York City BRIO Award for Fiction, was a Pushcart nominee in 2022, and her writing has appeared in The Chicago Review of Books, The Capital Gazette, and many other publications. She had been awarded scholarships to Ragdale, Community of Writers, and Eckerd College Writers' residencies. A native of Chicago, Marcia teaches adult writers at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Bronx. Her debut novel, The Home for Wayward Girls, was published by HarperCollins in 2023 and is on "Goodreads 105 of the buzziest novels of 2023 list."
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